cben

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   by cben 14y ago

   I disagree - distilled intuition is priceless. Intuition is why I learnt most of what I know about hacking came not from university courses ( ) but from scouring the internet for interesting reading, studying open source and RFCs, and readi
2. 212.▲
   by cben 14y ago

   Perhaps it would help to checkpoint the compilation periodically, keyed by hash of input consumed so far, so when adding a word on page 100 you don't have to load all packages and recompile 100 pages. - One approach is fork() processes (the
3. 213.▲
   by cben 14y ago

   "Password is too short (minimum is 8 characters)" - this can lose you users. I don't want to invent yet another password just to try this out. So offer feedback on password strength, but let users decide on the secutity/convenience tradeo
4. 214.▲
   by cben 18y ago

   I want to focus on one point that I find an interesting study in language design: > * I haven't found an expression that is better written as a list comprehension than as a map/reduce/select expression. map/select are better iff you ha